Here is what I did with three hard drives. This took me around an hour to drill out the drive cage and then around an hour and a half to actually mount the drives. It's a lot of trial and error, especially with the zip ties because the cords stretch and the backs of the drives are heavier than the front.

I'm probably going to rotate the direction of the bottom cords by 90 degrees in order to prevent the drives from hitting the sides of the case. The case is an Antec Super Lanboy by the way.

I rigged up a suspended drive in an Antec 300 case. The drive bays arenâ€™t wide enough to keep the drive horizontal, so I oriented it vertically. I only expect to ever need one drive anyway. I used good old StretchMagic.

It was difficult to tie the knots under tension, i.e. after feeding the cord through the slots. So instead I borrowed an idea from a few pages back. I cut off a double length of StretchMagic and tied it up before installing it, then fed the doubled cord through the slots and holes. To prevent the ends from slipping back through again, they loop around some short lengths of aluminum rod. Wooden dowels or bits of a pencil would work just as well.

The result is very good. No vibration gets transferred to the case and the potential cooling problem is averted. It also stacks nicely on top of the computer, even though I should be able to fit a total of five cartridges in this midtower case if I'd disassemble the floppy bay.

thats brilliant, Elijah86, is that passively cooled with low/no airflow? and does it still stay cool?

It is passive, not much air gets up in the front drive bay area once the front of the case is on. I know it stays cool I just don't remember what it is at most of the time. If I remember I will check temps and post back.

Don't see why not, as long as they weren't old and perished already. Basically any rubber that will perish quickly (like elastic bands) is out, everything else is game, with soft and springy being the best.

Let me repeat the same advise I've been dishing out for 7 years: Clothing elastic is the cheapest suspension material, extremely durable and highly effective. A meter is usually a buck or so -- at any fabric store. Comes in many diameters, colors and shapes.

What do you guys think of mine? I am using rubber bands (regardless of them being colored they are rubber bands) and I just got 4 screws, and cut the rubber bands, so now they aren't in circles but in long strips, and just tied one end of each to a screw and the other end to the other band after going through my case. I don't know if it works so well because I can still hear the hard drive, I guess it is just a loud one. Just sitting there doing nothing I can here the disk spinning and when it starts accessing data it's decently bad. I bought the hard drive in 04 or 05 I believe so it's decently old. It's a 80GB WD SATA drive.

How long have those rubber bands been there? They are guaranteed break, in a relatively short time, especially under any kind of tension or heat. I use them under low tension as string vibration dampers in my tennis rackets and have to replace them every few months due to wear or breakage.

They've only been in there a couple of days really. So when they break I'll replace them, but if I were to upgrade to some other type of material that was better would it decrease noise any better or give me any other upsides besides the fact that it won't break?

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